The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience.
My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
Classical ballet will never die.
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.
I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
